Facts
- Overview
- Lost deck plate girder bridge over Big River somewhere near Leadwood
- Location
- St. Francois County, Missouri
- Status
- Lost
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Inventory number
- BH 38185 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Comments
This bridge was at Leadwood beach I think, but if you know where it is and follow the rail line toward Bonneterre on Google earth you can find that the line used to run through a series of switch backs. This line ran from Bonneterre to Leadwood and then cross the Owl creek and made it's way back to Elvins on Front street where the chat dump used to be.
The MR&BT(Mississippi river & bonne terre, later Missouri illinios, it was part of the hoffman branch that ran to leadwood, missouri illinios was a subsidarary of mopac, Illinios southern from st. genivieve to bismarck merged with MR&BT to form Missouri Illinios, the MR&BT main ran from doe run to riverside, the Illinios southern crossed MR&BT at derby junction, in elvins on a diamond,when the M&I came along the track from derby to doe run was ripped up and the railrod built a switch becuase the track from st. gen was now M&I and so was the MR&BT Main line.
what rr was this on?